The Birthday
1980 · Ewa Petelska · 96 min
The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.
Piotr ŁysakJerzy Bielecki
Andrzej ŁapickiStanisław Bielecki
Jolanta GrusznicTeresa
Gabriela KownackaJadźka
Hanna SkarżankaJerzy's Grandmother
Kazimierz KaczorKarczewskiRoman FranklZiemowit
Tomasz ZaliwskiWalczak
Arkadiusz BazakGustaw
Krzysztof ChamiecColonel
Henryk KlubaTax Office Clerk
Witold PyrkoszAntoni Jakubowicz
Leonard AndrzejewskiMan Outside the Moonshine Stall
Janusz BylczyńskiWacław
Jacek BorkowskiLieutenant
Andrzej ŁapickiStanisław BieleckiJolanta GrusznicTeresaGabriela KownackaJadźkaHanna SkarżankaJerzy's GrandmotherKazimierz KaczorKarczewskiRoman FranklZiemowitTomasz ZaliwskiWalczakArkadiusz BazakGustawKrzysztof ChamiecColonelHenryk KlubaTax Office ClerkWitold PyrkoszAntoni JakubowiczLeonard AndrzejewskiMan Outside the Moonshine StallJanusz BylczyńskiWacławJacek BorkowskiLieutenant
